Posts by Jaded_CTO

Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years

No NCSC audit?

Is it just me who wonders why government departments IT systems are not audited by the government security agency? Surely this should be a given?

Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport

Dry run?

Not one for conspiracy theories but, Statnett in Norway had an unused transformer attacked a week or so ago causing a 60 tonne oil leak - will be interesting to find out what the cause of this fire was. Other than closing down Heathrow the effect on air travel will be enormous given all the diverted and cancelled flights

UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard

Re: A waste of time and taxpayer money

It’s a good point but you still effectively have to comply with Proposition 65 if you want to sell into the US. But that is more like having a special law in France that means you can’t sell to the EU - the UK being on its own carries mich less weight

Re: A waste of time and taxpayer money

Yep - completely pointless survey from the Department of Tearing Up Pound Notes

The future of software? Imagine a bot, stamping on a human face – forever

Re: Complicated for fun

This is SO true. Stuff should just work, for the intended user. If it doesn’t, it’s been badly designed and made and users will rightly switch to products that do ‘just work’

Study backer: Catastrophic takes on Agile overemphasize new features

Re: The backlog is agile's dirty little secret

Carrying incomplete sprints forward like this is a bit like an Olympic event which starts as the 100m , the becomes the 200m , the 400m , 4 x 400m etc . If it was just one event this may be manageable but often the whole project starts operating like this